Blogging, it turns out, is hard.

Sometimes you follow up the first mother’s day after her death with a visit from your stepfather. And then you take a week off work for a computer-free trans-atlantic trip featuring the scattering of her ashes.

When you come back to work on Monday, they tell you that they want you in Poland on Wednesday. You need to arrange everything, you go on the trip, and then suddenly it’s Friday and you’re heading into a holiday weekend.

It’s been three weeks since you’ve blogged, and you can’t even feel guilty about it, because it’s not like you’ve been squandering your blogging time watching bad television. Well, mostly not.

At least it’s Caturday.

Image found at I Have Seen the Whole of the Internet.

Meet the world’s first vending machine, which dispensed holy water. I’m trying to think of a witty line that would declare vending machines to be a religious conspiracy, but cannot.

I have clearly been away from this morning coffee thing for too long.

(Little Red Riding Hood is attacked by the Big Bad Wolf in the photo above, by Shlomi Nissim)

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Here at the Big Bad Blog, we often wonder about our crazy writing/posting schedules. The fact is that they are necessary — without them we would descend into a creative pattern very similar to that described here by Sable.

The problem with blogging every day? Sometimes you go on vacation. You come back from vacation, with the best of intentions: You are going to catch up on your work. You are going to tackle the piles of laundry that are so large and numerous that you are not sure how they made it into your flat. You are going to resume your normal blogging schedule.

It turns out, this is not true.

Instead, there is jetlag. You are tired, at strange times.
There is more work to be done than expected, because you have been gone for a week and a half, and there is a resulting backlog in things-that-must-be-done.
And that laundry needs to dry. You cannot just throw on the next load. The presently-drying-laundry must be dealt with first.

On top of all this, blogging takes time. Come up with idea. Expand on idea. Do a bit of research. Find links. Find photos. Ensure that you are being suitably opinionated — somebody ought to take offense at it, or you’re no blogger.

So you get to Wednesday. You have plans — after all, you have not seen friends in a couple of weeks. You have twenty minutes to write something in order to keep up with your blog schedule.

You are still on the “come up with idea” step.

This is the result.

Enjoy?